Because Google symbolizes anti-establishment with its focus on open-source and "do no evil". In other words if the government went to them to make a deal to spy on Americans like they did with AT&T, Google would say no. And that angers conservatives.
I may not have made this clear in my previous post. My point about the international transit data being $40/mbit and dropping 50% every year, compared to NBNco's $20/mbit CVC charge, is that intranational transit is orders of magnitude cheaper than international. In a couple of years it will actually be cheaper to transmit data across the Pacific Ocean to Australia than it will be to send data between users in Australia, despite the fact that the NBN is basically one giant LAN network where bandwidth is virtually unlimited.
I'd just like to point out the only reason you will have caps on your FTTH connection is because of the government's absurd pricing scheme that isn't used in any other wholesale network in the world. In addition to the usual $xx/(tier of speed) retail ISPs have to pay NBNCo (known as AVC, ex: $24/12mbit, $36/50 mbit, etc.), there is an additional "contention charge", called the connectivity virtual circuit (CVC). ISPs attempting to provision bandwidth to their customers will have to pay $20/mbit of actual throughput.
There are two points to consider here. One is that this charge is utterly unrelated to the cost or difficulty of transferring data on the new network. The FTTH network will be provisioned extremely well. Charging $20/mbit is ludicrous. Those prices are beyond inflated. Currently international transit data to Australia costs $40/mbit, and drops 50% every year on average. Worst of all is that NBNco's business plan foresees charges dropping only 50% after 10 years. Bandwidth costs around the world drop 35% *annually*.
The second point is that NBNCo is ostensibly using CVC charges to hasten payback on the network. However it absolutely doesn't need a CVC charge, and could instead simply increase each AVC tier by a few dollars/month. Simon Hackett, the founder and private owner of Internode, has relentlessly criticized the NBN over this issue (http://delimiter.com.au/2011/05/20/conroy-has-stuffed-up-nbn-pricing-says-hackett/).
Because of CVC, 90-95% of the FTTH's capacity will go unused. Remember, GPON allocates 2.4 gbit/s to each node of 32 users. FTTH networks like Verizon FIOS deliver virtually 1:1 uncontended bandwidth to their customers. XGPON (10 gbit/s) is already commercially available and NBNCo will no doubt adopt it in a few years. This will mean an even smaller % of the network's will be utilized. Make no mistake: if not for the absurd and unnecessary CVC charges everyone in Australia would have unlimited, uncapped accounts.
You're a complete and utter moron, you know that? Right now Telstra owns EVERYTHING. You're already "footing the bill" *and then some* by being forced to sustain Telstra's ridiculous monopolist profit margins.
Why would you NOT want the government to build and own the infrastructure, exactly the same freaking way it builds and owns the power lines, the sewer lines, the roads, etc. You don't have to pay for a bunch of CEOs' $10 million bonuses, or shareholder dividends. All revenue goes towards paying off the network.
How else were you planning on getting FTTH to 93% of Australians? Telstra had no intention of EVER building FTTH. They wanted to build a new monopolistic FTTN network that would have cost $20 billion (with most of the bill footed by taxpayers) and provided no upgrade path to FTTH.
God you anti-government morons make me sick. You WANT to keep paying Telstra for their rotting copper network? You DON'T want ultra high speed FTTH? Can you just drown yourself in an ocean and save the rest of us from your stupidity? PLEASE?
The sad thing is on slashdot there could easily be a post with your exact same words but applied to climate scientists, and that poster would have absolutely no freaking idea the insane amount of research and easily accessible evidence (realclimate.org for example) that would prove them wrong.
They are, but the "Liberals" (just a name; they're actually the conservative group) have been adopting more and more American neo con tactics. They actually invited over several key Tea Party and Republican strategists to discuss tactics in private. Let's not forget the Rupert Murdoch owned newspaper "The Australian", which despite losing money year after year is subsidized by Murdoch to parrot right-wing talking points (see the National Broadband Network "debate"). Australia's media has consolidated and is failing them. The NBN will change that, but for the time being it's a real problem.
So the plebeians will rant and rave about how great science is when it makes their life easier and more productive (internet, modern medicine, manufacturing efficiency, productivity) but when it shows them changes need to be taken that will cost them a tiny fraction of their annual salary they go nuts. The greed of the average citizen in a capitalistic society knows no bounds.
Globalization hasn't been the only thing to hurt the US, but I think you're doing a disservice to look at overall population. Look at manufacturing centers like Detroit or stretches of the Deep South. They've been massacred by the loss of manufacturing jobs.
The issues are all exacerbated by the lack of single-payer, tax-paid health care, and the lack of social safety nets, as well as the absurdly low tax rates. But that shouldn't discount the issues of off-shoring, the loss of human capital and demoralization of a generation, as well as the evidence of government fealty to corporate goals.
Yeah but the Deep South keeps voting in neo cons. They get what they deserve, and they are a very stupid bunch. Alternatively our political system gives far too much power to sparsely populated rural states, and the Democrats are hardly progressive.
All those stupid passworded files you download from rapidshare/megaupload/etc. can be brute force opened without having to jump through the maker's stupid loop holes.
That's not true. There's a South Korean firm that released an e-ink e-reader with a solar panel and it's perfectly fine. Look at calculators with solar panels.
Devices like the Kindle are battery sipping, not needing to be charged for weeks at a time. A simple, low-cost and low power solar panel could easily keep it charged at 100%.
Why not put solar panels on E-ink based e-readers? You have Amazon et al. bragging about their battery life, but if you put a solar panel on the things you'd never need to charge them.
I'd also like to point out this "Fetish" for cuckolding is generally centered around white-dominated societies. I've never seen that kind of interest in Eastern countries. Even in hentai the "cheating wife" is portrayed as a terrible, immoral person who eventually suffers greatly for what she's done.
Only among white people do you see the obsession with women cheating. In fact historically western culture has been far more concerned with the "purity" of women than their fidelity, whereas in Asian countries fidelity and loyalty to the partner and family has always been the most highly valued characteristic.
What the summary fails to mention is that console Netflix users use even more data per month on average: 80 GB. That doesn't account for other forms of consumption, such as Hulu or downloaded games.
There's a chart that shows PS3 users consume the most data of all.
LTE won't be uncapped for long. Rumors have it Verizon will introduce tiered pricing in the summer. That's why I recommend people get an LTE phone and uncapped plan before that happens.
As for tethering, it's an Android phone. You don't even need to root it to use a wired tethering program, and for the wireless hotspot rooting isn't that hard.
Has anyone seen the Asus Transformer? $100 less than an iPad 2 and it sold out minutes after being put up at Amazon and every other retail outlets. It's on backorder for weeks.
People like you getting modded insightful are why I avoid Slashdot these days. The "hockey stick" talking point has been debunked so many times, including on this site, that all I can do is roll my eyes when people bring it up. The lack of trust that computer professionals have on this site for climate scientists' conclusions boggles the mind.
Tne N8's 12 MP camera has a ginormous sensor that produces absolutely amazing quality pictures, even better than the vast majority of point and shoot cameras.
You also should mention the reactor is 40 freaking years old. A reactor completed today would have the advantage of 4 DECADES of research and development, new engineering techniques, computerization, better understanding of nuclear reactors... gah the list goes on and on and on. It's 40 years! If you showed people of 1971 what exists today, they would think it was either some alien technology or run by magic. Sigh...
This is something I seriously do not understand. On literally every forum I frequent, even the most liberal ones, you have tons of people lamenting the problems with nuclear reactors. But... what about the number of people who die because of coal reactors? What about the harm to the environment the pollution and the required mining causes? And how the devil do you take this insanely rare circumstance of a ridiculous 9.0 earthquake AND tsunami occurring to an island nation being an indicator of nuclear's lack of safety??? The reactors actually SURVIVED the earthquake. It was the tsunami that did them in. If you're so freaking worried don't build them at the freaking coast you moronic luddites. God gone it I hate people.
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No it was because GM's management sucked.
First let me tell you that "laughing you ass off when they get raped in prison" only shows that you're a very mean and despicable individual.
That's most of slashdot.
You and one or two other commenters are religiously anti-Google on this thread. Suspicious...
Because Google symbolizes anti-establishment with its focus on open-source and "do no evil". In other words if the government went to them to make a deal to spy on Americans like they did with AT&T, Google would say no. And that angers conservatives.
I may not have made this clear in my previous post. My point about the international transit data being $40/mbit and dropping 50% every year, compared to NBNco's $20/mbit CVC charge, is that intranational transit is orders of magnitude cheaper than international. In a couple of years it will actually be cheaper to transmit data across the Pacific Ocean to Australia than it will be to send data between users in Australia, despite the fact that the NBN is basically one giant LAN network where bandwidth is virtually unlimited.
I'd just like to point out the only reason you will have caps on your FTTH connection is because of the government's absurd pricing scheme that isn't used in any other wholesale network in the world. In addition to the usual $xx/(tier of speed) retail ISPs have to pay NBNCo (known as AVC, ex: $24/12mbit, $36/50 mbit, etc.), there is an additional "contention charge", called the connectivity virtual circuit (CVC). ISPs attempting to provision bandwidth to their customers will have to pay $20/mbit of actual throughput.
There are two points to consider here. One is that this charge is utterly unrelated to the cost or difficulty of transferring data on the new network. The FTTH network will be provisioned extremely well. Charging $20/mbit is ludicrous. Those prices are beyond inflated. Currently international transit data to Australia costs $40/mbit, and drops 50% every year on average. Worst of all is that NBNco's business plan foresees charges dropping only 50% after 10 years. Bandwidth costs around the world drop 35% *annually*.
The second point is that NBNCo is ostensibly using CVC charges to hasten payback on the network. However it absolutely doesn't need a CVC charge, and could instead simply increase each AVC tier by a few dollars/month. Simon Hackett, the founder and private owner of Internode, has relentlessly criticized the NBN over this issue (http://delimiter.com.au/2011/05/20/conroy-has-stuffed-up-nbn-pricing-says-hackett/).
Because of CVC, 90-95% of the FTTH's capacity will go unused. Remember, GPON allocates 2.4 gbit/s to each node of 32 users. FTTH networks like Verizon FIOS deliver virtually 1:1 uncontended bandwidth to their customers. XGPON (10 gbit/s) is already commercially available and NBNCo will no doubt adopt it in a few years. This will mean an even smaller % of the network's will be utilized. Make no mistake: if not for the absurd and unnecessary CVC charges everyone in Australia would have unlimited, uncapped accounts.
You're a complete and utter moron, you know that? Right now Telstra owns EVERYTHING. You're already "footing the bill" *and then some* by being forced to sustain Telstra's ridiculous monopolist profit margins.
Why would you NOT want the government to build and own the infrastructure, exactly the same freaking way it builds and owns the power lines, the sewer lines, the roads, etc. You don't have to pay for a bunch of CEOs' $10 million bonuses, or shareholder dividends. All revenue goes towards paying off the network.
How else were you planning on getting FTTH to 93% of Australians? Telstra had no intention of EVER building FTTH. They wanted to build a new monopolistic FTTN network that would have cost $20 billion (with most of the bill footed by taxpayers) and provided no upgrade path to FTTH.
God you anti-government morons make me sick. You WANT to keep paying Telstra for their rotting copper network? You DON'T want ultra high speed FTTH? Can you just drown yourself in an ocean and save the rest of us from your stupidity? PLEASE?
The sad thing is on slashdot there could easily be a post with your exact same words but applied to climate scientists, and that poster would have absolutely no freaking idea the insane amount of research and easily accessible evidence (realclimate.org for example) that would prove them wrong.
They are, but the "Liberals" (just a name; they're actually the conservative group) have been adopting more and more American neo con tactics. They actually invited over several key Tea Party and Republican strategists to discuss tactics in private. Let's not forget the Rupert Murdoch owned newspaper "The Australian", which despite losing money year after year is subsidized by Murdoch to parrot right-wing talking points (see the National Broadband Network "debate"). Australia's media has consolidated and is failing them. The NBN will change that, but for the time being it's a real problem.
So the plebeians will rant and rave about how great science is when it makes their life easier and more productive (internet, modern medicine, manufacturing efficiency, productivity) but when it shows them changes need to be taken that will cost them a tiny fraction of their annual salary they go nuts. The greed of the average citizen in a capitalistic society knows no bounds.
Globalization hasn't been the only thing to hurt the US, but I think you're doing a disservice to look at overall population. Look at manufacturing centers like Detroit or stretches of the Deep South. They've been massacred by the loss of manufacturing jobs. The issues are all exacerbated by the lack of single-payer, tax-paid health care, and the lack of social safety nets, as well as the absurdly low tax rates. But that shouldn't discount the issues of off-shoring, the loss of human capital and demoralization of a generation, as well as the evidence of government fealty to corporate goals.
Yeah but the Deep South keeps voting in neo cons. They get what they deserve, and they are a very stupid bunch. Alternatively our political system gives far too much power to sparsely populated rural states, and the Democrats are hardly progressive.
All those stupid passworded files you download from rapidshare/megaupload/etc. can be brute force opened without having to jump through the maker's stupid loop holes.
That's not true. There's a South Korean firm that released an e-ink e-reader with a solar panel and it's perfectly fine. Look at calculators with solar panels. Devices like the Kindle are battery sipping, not needing to be charged for weeks at a time. A simple, low-cost and low power solar panel could easily keep it charged at 100%.
Why not put solar panels on E-ink based e-readers? You have Amazon et al. bragging about their battery life, but if you put a solar panel on the things you'd never need to charge them.
I'd also like to point out this "Fetish" for cuckolding is generally centered around white-dominated societies. I've never seen that kind of interest in Eastern countries. Even in hentai the "cheating wife" is portrayed as a terrible, immoral person who eventually suffers greatly for what she's done.
Only among white people do you see the obsession with women cheating. In fact historically western culture has been far more concerned with the "purity" of women than their fidelity, whereas in Asian countries fidelity and loyalty to the partner and family has always been the most highly valued characteristic.
Well if your government forced VM to line-share and competitors sprouted up, VM would eliminate their policy very quickly.
What the summary fails to mention is that console Netflix users use even more data per month on average: 80 GB. That doesn't account for other forms of consumption, such as Hulu or downloaded games. There's a chart that shows PS3 users consume the most data of all.
LTE won't be uncapped for long. Rumors have it Verizon will introduce tiered pricing in the summer. That's why I recommend people get an LTE phone and uncapped plan before that happens. As for tethering, it's an Android phone. You don't even need to root it to use a wired tethering program, and for the wireless hotspot rooting isn't that hard.
Just pay Verizon $70/month for an unlimited LTE connection on a Thunderbolt. Then tether it and you'll be wire-free.
Has anyone seen the Asus Transformer? $100 less than an iPad 2 and it sold out minutes after being put up at Amazon and every other retail outlets. It's on backorder for weeks.
People like you getting modded insightful are why I avoid Slashdot these days. The "hockey stick" talking point has been debunked so many times, including on this site, that all I can do is roll my eyes when people bring it up. The lack of trust that computer professionals have on this site for climate scientists' conclusions boggles the mind.
Tne N8's 12 MP camera has a ginormous sensor that produces absolutely amazing quality pictures, even better than the vast majority of point and shoot cameras.
You also should mention the reactor is 40 freaking years old. A reactor completed today would have the advantage of 4 DECADES of research and development, new engineering techniques, computerization, better understanding of nuclear reactors... gah the list goes on and on and on. It's 40 years! If you showed people of 1971 what exists today, they would think it was either some alien technology or run by magic. Sigh...
This is something I seriously do not understand. On literally every forum I frequent, even the most liberal ones, you have tons of people lamenting the problems with nuclear reactors. But... what about the number of people who die because of coal reactors? What about the harm to the environment the pollution and the required mining causes? And how the devil do you take this insanely rare circumstance of a ridiculous 9.0 earthquake AND tsunami occurring to an island nation being an indicator of nuclear's lack of safety??? The reactors actually SURVIVED the earthquake. It was the tsunami that did them in. If you're so freaking worried don't build them at the freaking coast you moronic luddites. God gone it I hate people.